David Dippie Dixon (1 September 1842 in Whittingham – 28 November 1929 in Rothbury) was an English local historian and writer on his native Northumberland.
In 1862, his father opened a second shop in Coquetdale House, on the High Street in Rothbury (about 6 miles south of Whittingham).
Mary was the daughter of Robert Hindhaugh, who ran the local brewery and was part of a "large and influential family ... since at least the seventeenth century".
According to John Roland Bibby in the foreword to a facsimile version of the latter of these books, David edited the local parish magazine and contributed to The Newcastle Society of Antiquities with his writings and artefacts that he had been given.
They renamed the store "Dixon Brothers" which, as well as being a general draper and family grocer, became a tea dealer, stationer, bookseller and newsagent.
As an amateur historian, David Dippie Dixon spent many hours reading about and exploring the local area, and writing about his findings, whether they be nature, folk lore or the picturesque views.
Illustrations for the book were drawn by his brother and business partner, John Turnbull Dixon, who married Jane Ann Hindhaugh, Mary's sister.
In 2006, Paul Frodsham published "An introduction to Prehistoric Upper Coquetdale, 100 Years after David Dippie Dixon".